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Duncan, Carolyn Wilkerson – Day Care and Early Education, 1979
Argues that child care administrators must take the initiative in developing the support child care needs, and in influencing legislation that will develop a national child care policy. (MP)
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Community Influence, Community Support, Day Care

Hays, Scott P.; Hays, Carol E.; Mulhall, Peter F. – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2003
Study researched the impact of the contextual characteristics of the community on self-reported 8th grade alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use. Results indicate that community disorganization is an important risk factor for ATOD use while family supports is an important protective factor. Greater economic constraints decreases, rather than…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Characteristics, Community Influence, Drinking

Ma, Grace Xuequin; Toubbeh, Jamil; Cline, Janette; Chisholm, Anita – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1998
Examines American-Indian adolescents' perceptions of risk factors and effects associated with alcohol use during pregnancy, and age-related prevention strategies for fetal alcohol syndrome. Results indicate peer pressure, influences of adult drinking behaviors, stressful family environment, and acceptance of alcohol use in Indian community may be…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Community Influence, Drinking

Hansen, L. Sunny – Career Development Quarterly, 2001
Provides a rationale and interdisciplinary framework for integrating work and other dimensions of life by: reviewing relevant changes in society and the career development and counseling profession; describing one holistic career-planning model, Integrative Life Planning; and discussing questions and issues surrounding narrow versus broad…
Descriptors: Career Development, Community Influence, Family Influence, Family Work Relationship
Hay, Carter; Fortson, Edward N.; Hollist, Dusten R.; Altheimer, Irshad; Schaible, Lonnie M. – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2006
Prior research on the family has identified many variables significantly associated with criminal involvement, including such things as parental supervision and discipline and the quality of the parent-child relationship. However, little attention has been devoted to the possibility that the effects of these variables on crime depend on…
Descriptors: Crime, Adolescents, Social Environment, Family Environment
Colombo, Michaela W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
After many efforts to lift the achievement of its high numbers of culturally and linguistically diverse students, a district in Massachusetts realized that the missing link was parent involvement. In this article, the author describes a program the district created to improve relationships between teachers and families and the enormous difference…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Indigenous Knowledge, Community Influence
Griffin, Thomas; Svendsen, Roger – 1992
Alcohol, tobacco, and drug use prevention is a goal shared by many. Prevention strategies aim to both reduce specific problems resulting from substance abuse and promote healthy development. Past efforts at prevention have included a variety of approaches: (1) prohibition; (2) scare tactics; (3) presenting factual information; (4) affective…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Community Influence, Community Involvement, Drug Abuse
Dreilinger, Marilyn – Impact on Instructional Improvement, 1975
Looks at how "changes" in one public elementary school were manifested in family and community life. (Available from EA 506 677) (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Community Influence, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science

Chu, Morgan – Journal of Educational Administration, 1975
Develops analytically the concept of a subcommunity, develops the concept of a subcommunity's political influence, tests the application of these concepts with data collected from four low-income subcommunities, and analyzes and explores the possible relationships of environmental and school characteristics on the political influence of…
Descriptors: Citizens Councils, Community, Community Influence, Education
Dasgupta, Satadal – International Review of Community Development, 1974
The two communities compared tended to support the proposition that communities following an integrative style of development are characterized by coordinative structures including associational, while the contrary is true for communities following the autonomous style. Available from: Editorial and Business Offices, Piazza Cavalieri di Malta, 2,…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Development, Community Influence, Community Organizations
Bell, Lloyd H. – 1986
This paper examines some probable reasons for the black adolescent male's contribution to increased pregnancy in the black community. Using a situation analysis, it presents the following testable suppositions: (1) black males' fear of retribution for impregnating a girl has diminished, leading to increased sexual intercourse and ultimately to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Community, Black Culture, Black Family
Manley-Casimir, Michael E. – 1989
Discussed is the apparent tension that school administrators may experience between community demands for administrative compliance on the one hand and the personal imperative for defensible moral action on the other. The paper uses conceptual analysis as its method, informed by discussion of practical administrative situations. The first part of…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrators, Community Influence, Elementary Secondary Education
MORRIS, EDDIE W. – 1965
CERTAIN FACTORS AFFECTING FACULTY DESEGREGATION SUCH AS DESEGREGATION PREPARATION, TEACHER PERCEPTION AND QUALIFICATION, COMMUNITY STRUCTURE, AND SCHOOL FACILITIES WERE STUDIED. THE INTERVIEW SCHEDULE CONSISTED OF TWO PARTS. PART ONE WAS DESIGNED TO INVESTIGATE PREPARATION, UTILIZATION, ASSIGNMENT, AND OBSERVATIONS. PART TWO WAS DESIGNED TO…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Community Influence, Comparative Analysis, Desegregation Methods
Brown, James W.; Foushee, Richard E. – 1979
This paper discusses a proposed term project for a course in documentary photography that centered on photographically documenting a rural community and measuring its symbolic sociodramas. The paper describes the focus of the project, which was to determine how various community groups interpreted a given set of photographs designed to express a…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Influence, Documentaries, Journalism
Jennings, Ralph M. – 1969
The Communications Act of 1934 requires broadcasters to operate their stations "in the public interest, convenience, or necessity." But because broadcasters seek to make a profit and because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) cannot adequately monitor the thousands of radio and television stations, many stations do not live up…
Descriptors: Audiences, Broadcast Industry, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role